It is a truth universally acknowledged that the medical credentialing process is incredibly long and bureaucratic, with massive amounts of...Read More »
CMS and The Joint Commission require individuals other than licensed physicians who provide a “medical level of care” in the hospital to be credentialed and privileged in the same fashion as physicians. As advanced practice professionals (APP) have a greater presence in medical centers, some...
Hospitals and medical clinics are unique given the amount of personal information stored in their databanks. Despite the many technological...Read More »
Handling requests for information from law enforcement can throw staff for a loop. Most staff are aware of their organization’s policies and the...Read More »
In a credentialing-by-proxy arrangement, does the originating site have to actually grant clinical privileges to the telemedicine practitioner, or...Read More »
Recent CMS revisions to the State Operations Manual for Hospitals are zeroing in on the agency’s definition of a “hospital.” According to...Read More »
Most credentialing work is considered a peer review activity performed by the medical staff and governing board. As a result, state laws generally grant some amount of peer review protection to those parts of a particular credentials file that are acted upon by medical staff committees or the...
